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Renewable Energy in the UK: Past, Present and Future (Energy, Climate and the Environment)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

?This book offers a detailed account of how renewable energy has moved from the margins to the mainstream in the UK, and of the battles that have been fought to achieve this, trawling through the often troubled history of government involvement.

The book examines how renewables became what...

Bytes, Bombs, and Spies: The Strategic Dimensions of Offensive Cyber Operations

Brookings Institution Press, 2019

“We are dropping cyber bombs. We have never done that before.”—U.S. Defense Department official

A new era of war fighting is emerging for the U.S. military. Hi-tech weapons have given way to hi tech in a number of instances recently:

A computer virus is unleashed that...

Operational Procedures Describing Physical Systems

CRC Press, 2018

The authors examine topics in modern physics and offer a unitary and original treatment of the fundamental problems of the dynamics of physical systems, as well as a description of the nuclear matter within a framework of general relativity. They show that some physical phenomena studied at two different resolution scales (e.g....

Underland: A Deep Time Journey

W W Norton, 2019

National Bestseller • New York Times “100 Notable Books of the Year” • NPR “Favorite Books of 2019” • Guardian “100 Best Books of the 21st Century” • Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award

From the best-selling,...

Suicide by Democracy: an Obituary for America and the World

Independent Publishers Group, 2019

merica and the world are in the process of collapse from excessive population growth, most of it for the last century, and now all of it, due to 3rd world people. Consumption of resources and the addition of 4 billion more ca. 2100 will collapse industrial civilization and bring about starvation, disease, violence and war on a staggering scale....

The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution

W W Norton, 2019

From the former president of MIT, the story of the next technology revolution, and how it will change our lives.

A century ago, discoveries in physics came together with engineering to produce an array of astonishing new technologies: radios, telephones, televisions, aircraft, radar, nuclear power,...

UFO Secrets Inside Wright-Patterson: Eyewitness Accounts from the Real Area 51

New Page Books, 2019

“Carey and Schmitt show that good, old-fashioned investigative reporting is still alive and well.” —Cheryll Jones, former anchor, CNN News

The true nature of what actually crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947 remains classified. Only a select few have ever had access to the truth about what...

The Accretion and Obscured Growth of Supermassive Black Holes: First Constraints on the Local Heavily Obscured AGN Fraction with NuSTAR (Springer Theses)

Springer, 2020

This thesis describes the application of state-of-the-art high-energy X-ray studies to the astronomical quest for understanding obscured active galactic nuclei (AGN). These AGN are supermassive black holes growing by accretion of matter located in the nuclei of galaxies. The material that feeds these black holes also obscures them from...

This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

“Part John le Carré and more parts Michael Crichton . . . spellbinding.” –The New Yorker

From The New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth, the untold story of the cyberweapons market-the most secretive, invisible, government-backed market on earth-and a...

Foundations of Modern Physics

Cambridge University Press, 2021

In addition to his ground-breaking research, Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg is known for a series of highly praised texts on various aspects of physics, combining exceptional physical insight with his gift for clear exposition. Describing the foundations of modern physics in their historical context and with some new derivations, Weinberg...

Eisaku Sato, Japanese Prime Minister, 1964-72 (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)

Routledge, 2020

This book is a biography of Eisaku Sat? (1901-75), who served as prime minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972, before Prime Minister Abe the longest uninterrupted premiership in Japanese history. The book focuses on Sat?’s management of Japan’s relations with the United States and Japan’s neighbours in East Asia, where...

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